Lindsey Graham

In response to a Sept. 18 letter asserting that abuse was so common it should be overlooked, I need to say: Times have not changed; awareness has.

Two assumptions need to be dispelled:

1. All priests were child abusers.

I was a product of a large Catholic School in New Jersey. I was an alter boy and the choir master. We spent hours with the priests in the rectory watching their big black-and-white TV and talking about the things young boys do as they develop. We learned that...

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